AW: [PATCH] Convert sscanf to preferred xstrtou conversion.

Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org
Mon Jun 3 18:38:06 UTC 2013


On 6/3/2013 12:36 AM, dietmar.schindler at manroland-web.com wrote:

> Please excuse my interfering... Did you verify that the version with
> xstrtou is indeed shorter (which was the motivation for the change,
> if I understood right)? I doubt it. Besides that, the version with
> sscanf is far more readable.

My motivation for the change was that a core busybox developer told me 
to use xstrtou instead of sscanf :). I updated my patch to do so, and 
for the sake of consistency made the extra effort to go back and convert 
the existing code so it would match.



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